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A few days ago, Orlando Magic coach Frank Vogel said rookie forward Jonathan Isaac is ready to play defense in the NBA right now.
On Saturday night, Isaac offered proof on back-to-back defensive possessions.
Late in the third quarter against the...

MIAMI – The Orlando Magic again made themselves at home on the road, where they’ve had a modicum of success.
Like their season, it’s inexplicable why the Magic play better out of town than at Amway Center. But they continued their confounding ways,...

Victor Oladipo suffered a concussion in the Orlando Magic's 112-109 win over the Miami Heat on Friday night — an injury that almost certainly will end his season.
Oladipo sustained the injury when he attempted to take a charge from Heat 7-foot, 265-pound...

MIAMI — The game served as a staging area for the Hassan Whiteside sideshow.
Maybe Orlando Magic officials will be reviewing the tape this summer.
Whiteside, who can become a free agent, scored 26 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and had five blocks to...

After watching Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard exit, Magic fans might get queasy even thinking about the club perhaps trading the third-best center in franchise history at all, much less to their dastardly state rival.
I need some antacids myself when...

Q: So again, there's much more to be desired when it comes to Hassan Whiteside. His effort just seems to be sporadic. I’d much rather see Bam Adebayo start and play 30 minutes per game. So let’s commit to his development and just ignore the Whiteside...

The Miami Heat are pushing for something better, it's just that the payoff hasn't necessarily been there with the team's offense.
Ranked 11th in the NBA in pace going into Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers at AmericanAirlines Arena, the Heat...

Observations from Friday night's 99-91 loss to the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse:
-- It's not only about the defense anymore.
-- Or the turnovers.
-- Scoring in meaningful situations also now stands as an issue.
-- Because the Heat now are...

Q: Ira, you wrote as if the Heat got some sort of major accomplishment with the win in Brooklyn. But that Nets team was emotionally spent and still made it close at the end. -- Boris.
A: Do I believe it was an overwhelmingly impressive victory? No. Was...

Observations from Wednesday night's 120-107 victory over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center:
-- The turnovers have to stop.
-- Because they are what turn the simple into the way too complicated.
-- That is where the steadying influence if Dwyane Wade...

Q: Ira, this season is beginning to have a very disjointed feel to it already. First Dion Waiters shows up to camp apparently out of shape with no reported time frame for playing. James Johnson likewise has already missed 13 games. Dwyane Wade has missed...

The Philadelphia 76ers are only getting better. Their next game will come with Jimmy Butler in the lineup.
The Miami Heat need to get better, but for Erik Spoelstra's team it will have to come organically.
Unable to get a handle on Joel Embiid except...

Observations from Monday night's 124-114 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers at AmericanAirlines Arena:
-- In case you're looking for Joel Embiid, you probably can find him at the foul line at AmericanAirlines Arena.
-- It is where he camped out Monday...

It was kid stuff again Saturday night for the Miami Heat.
Lately, there has been little choice.
With Dwyane Wade away from the team for a third consecutive game following the birth of his daughter, and with Goran Dragic unable to contribute after...

Apparently, Hassan Whiteside eats boards for breakfast.
At least that's the perspective of teammate Kelly Olynyk after watching Whiteside join Rony Seikaly as only the second player in the Miami Heat's 31 seasons to grab 20 rebounds in consecutive games....

Observations from Friday night's 110-102 loss to the Indiana Pacers at AmericanAirlines Arena:
-- The Heat found themselves in their third grind game in as many outings.
-- Shorthanded, it was what they needed.
-- What they didn't need was the foul...

Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside was in the zone blocking shots in the first half of Wednesday night’s 95-88 win over the San Antonio Spurs at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Setting a franchise record for blocks in a half with eight, he wasn’t able to...

Q: This proves that Hassan Whiteside needs more touches, and when he gets the ball he's as engaged as Miami needs him to be. He kills the small-ball nonsense opposing teams try. -- Darryl, Fitzgerald, Ga.
A: I look at it more as different horses for...

Observations from Wednesday night's 95-88 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at AmericanAirlines Arena:
-- The lesson from this one, as from Monday's victory in Detroit, is that the Heat are built to grind.
-- The Pistons and Spurs were willing...

Dwyane Wade's first absence of the season comes not for rest or a maintenance program, but rather for what the Miami Heat are listing as personal reasons.
Wade has played as a sixth man this season, appearing in each of the first nine games before the...